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Fitted a Kingston ssd to my laptop which did speed things up a little but not as great an improvement as I had hoped so traded up to a Samsung Evo which is a little better but still not amazing, maybe I am expecting too much ...

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Fitted a Kingston ssd to my laptop which did speed things up a little but not as great an improvement as I had hoped so traded up to a Samsung Evo which is a little better but still not amazing, maybe I am expecting too much ...

It may depend on how old the laptop is and whether it is SATA II (3Gbs) or SATA III (6Gbs) . With SATA II the increase in speed over a mechanical drive is around 20%-50%, with SATA III the increase in speed should be at least double to treble that of a mechanical drive.

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Yep, on an Acer Aspire, but it kept locking up - perhaps old hardware but it was happy with Windows 7.
Doesn't use systemd which I don't know much about but apparently an area of controversy in the L world.